New Etsy purchase..

I like a busy soffit...hard to do when there isn't one. I decided vinyl words would be good. Sis helped me find this one at Etsy, I love it!

I'm still working on the kitchen...got to decide on window treatments. Dick made the valentine on the refrigerator...it says ...I Love You the Most. I teased him, "who are the others, if you love me the most ??"...Sis said it stems from Pop Pop and Leah going back and forth on who loves who the most....but she did see my point! :-)

Our New Home...

Welcome to our new "old home".....the fireplace burns wood..we haven't had one of those in a while...we roasted marshmallow's there during the ice storm week before last. I'm going to make panels for this room probably a neutral green. I need to move the rug to the left, but so far haven't "forced the issue".

Looking down the hallway to the 3 bedrooms, bathroom and the kitchen is the first door to your left. There is a tiny coat closet there too.

Think we are going to like a living room with no TV....already had a lot of talking and book reading in there! I'll try and get the dinning room and kitchen pictures up tomorrow.

Our comfy bed that will not hold me much past 5 or so....working on that! Only one bedside table would fit...I gotta find a small table for my side..need drawers. I'm using a very fashionable tray. :-)

Got the drapes up here....JoAnn Fabrics had rod's 50% off!


Guest bedroom will be really awesome when I get drapes made and pictures up....the quilt is blue toile. There's a cherry sugar chest and a cherry chest of drawers. I think I'll put the canopy on too. Looks really naked here...in person it's homier but still a lot left to do.

The front porch Ala' winter...needs some pillows, people and ice tea!..It's the south, we ALWAYS have ice tea...well, and lemonade too! We are going to paint the front door a little darker red.



This is the view from the grand kids bedroom to the front porch and yard...Leah just loves the view!


Leah loves the reading pillow too...the room is bright and airy...so much better than their windowless condo bedroom!

This is the grand kids basement playroom....we have a lot to do to make it homey, but it's a start...need drapes and more artwork ASAP!

This is our basement family room...my "office" is at one end...I have a window with a tree. All the windows in the house have a tree...good and bad...found that out in the ice storm!


Our poor buffet has not been in the dinning room for a while....it was in our bedroom at the condo. The little rocker is very, very old. It belonged to Dick's grandmother....still holds grand kids!
Dick's office is on the second floor, it's really cozy.....he has a TV and his lap-top..nice set-up. There's a sky light over his desk...beautiful view.

This is supposed to be the master bedroom. Has a walk-in closet and bath....love the space...it's an Ikea type bedroom I'm thinking.

I need to get something to hold my summer shoes, laid out here in the upstairs "master suite". Leah went shopping when she saw the shoes...she got really excited and picked out 3 pairs of the girliest heels for her playroom...gotta love it!!:-)

Oh yeah..here's our pantry for now....LeAnn got any suggestions???!!

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I was inspired the other day by my dear blogger friend LeAnn to decorate for fall a bit. My 3 year old granddaughter Leah was here and really got upset with me for putting pumpkins out before Halloween...."No, Gramma Re!" Leah said, "not yet! It's not Halloween yet, you're not posed to do that now!" So I didn't put any of the pumpkins with faces out or stuff like that. It was fun getting the decorations out and looking forward to the fall days ahead.

In Louisville the first weekend in October there is this huge arts show (750 artist) we never want to miss....The St James Art Fair , the setting is at a downtown park with lovely old mansions surrounding it. The best part for us is the atmosphere, outlandish art work, people watching and the best pumpkin rolls you will ever taste in your life! Dick and I were talking about them at breakfast...oh dear...can we make low fat pumpkin rolls??? We will probably go for the real thing!

Looking at these pictures makes me really miss the colors we have had at other houses, Benjamin Moore's Grasslands Green and Golden Tan. When we moved into the condo, they had it all painted one color.. Benjamin Moore's China Girl, we kept it thinking we would not be there long and neutral colors would sell better....but I sure miss the color on the walls. I also apologize for the quality of the pictures....got to get a better camera!! Or photographer!! :-)

Still working on this one, found the metal pumpkins at Stein Mart

gardens

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We all loved this home, lots of wonderful memories here....

We called this "the girls room" or the music room. Both a piano and cello resided there. No TV, so it was a perfect place to curl up with a book.

If you have been in Melissa's dining room...I copied her wallpaper...we went through wallpaper book after book, just came back to this one, it was perfect here. She was very gracious to let me use it.

The kitchen...oh did we have some great fun in here....Bridal showers, Baby showers, Garden Club parties, birthdays, holidays and just good old family times, maybe a little dancing.....

I loved that chandelier. The paint in this room was Benjamin Moore's,"Grasslands", I absolutely loved the neutral color of green.

Our cozy family room...loved the logs ablaze in there. That ceiling fan was the first of four we bought, I have two in our present home..guess you could say I like it...I'm coo coo for lighting.

We had a small porch off the family room leading to the screened-in porch and yard.

You can see a portion of our garden here

Next I'll show how all this furniture was moved into an 83 year old house and did just fine!

To be continued.....